Alright... which one of my plants farted?
Seriously?!?? Wtf? I wake up before lights on at 6:45 am and make a cup a coffee. I go in at about 7am and I can smell their wonderful scent... as I just did a big feed yesterday and we are in our fourth week of flower so today they should be looking/smelling glorious... and for the most part they are.
I smelled something funky and my heart stopped. My mind goes straight to thinking root rot... bud rot... please no god no... but it isn't a musty or moldy smell.
I don't have a great nose. I am a cigarette smoker. So I go to the computer to look up the smell. I then returned to the flower room to find the source of the smell because I didn't really know where the smell was coming from yet.
It isn't the soil. I till around my top soil daily... a new practice that has been helping my soil dry out a bit faster. The soil smells like soil. I checked every plant up and down. I was like a blood hound on the trail of scent that I was now processing as more sulfuric in nature than anything else.
Then I start smelling the plants... the leaves... the buds themselves... and it comes down to ONE plant's central bud. Wtf??? It is one that I did indeed feed yesterday but they all got the same feed at the same ppm. So why is one of my plants... moreover ONE stalk of buds smelling like egg farts??? It seems to be dissipating but this has got me nervous. I reiterate my sense of smell is pretty damn bad and I could smell that distinct sulfuric scent when I opened the door.
I run the dehu pretty much 24/7 at this point in flower and I have plenty of circulation.
Should I be worried? Anyone have any ideas? Any and all help would be greatly appreciated because this fucking stinks! (Had to do it sorry.)
Sorry I'm catching up .... that smell will certainly change a few times usually every day... you just caught it because you are in the room with them. Just be glad it smells like a fart and not cat piss... I've had bud that smells like all kinds of gross shit. Like so nasty how am I going to puff on that... then dry and cure and the sweetness comes forward. You will be fine.
You indeed have a polyploid plant. Good to take clones of her if you haven't already done so. There are actually several versions of polyploidy.. That term is a general term kinda an umbrella term to generalize whats going on with plants that have several copies of chromosomes going on in the plant.
interesting read on it:
Polyploidy - Polyploidy In Animals, Polyploidy In Plants, Genetic Analysis - Chromosome, Chromosomes, and Sets
- JRank Articles
Its a fairly common genetic mutation in the plant world. Your plant there could be triploid up to Octoploid... you can tell how many sets of chromosomes are duplicated by the shape of the flower, IF you look close enough. That's about all I know about it, other than that plant should be larger and more vigorous than her tent mates. Why I mentioned cloning... the clones will have exact copies of the chromosomes so larger plants larger yields and of course larger flowers in your case!
Lucky you... good job. plants are looking great... lots of green leaves. Taper off the nutes and let the plant use up what they have adsorbed .. you will thank me later when trimming!
HID vs LED.. battle is done...there's a thing in the LED world called COB.... (chips on board). For same wattage the COB tech beats HID, I've switched over to all COBs in flower ... I've used HID for sure where I got started. The blurple lights are what they are. If you were growing in HID or COB your ladies would have stretched x2 easily. There's something about the blurple lights that do not promote stretch. I couldn't believe it until I used the COBs.. now all my plants are 5-6" tall in flower.
Oh was reading about your mom and arthritis ... I had it pretty bad for a long time as did my mother. For me... it turned out to be a food allergy that was causing fluid build up in my joints and of course joint pain. I stopped eating wheat... joint pain started to get better and better...stopped eating sugar .... even better.
We humans are 90% bacteria... we grow the wrong ones in our gut (usually from shit food) and we have all kinds of health issues, seemingly unrelated.
My diet is high protein, high fat low carbs no wheat at all (I will get sick for weeks IF I try it again which I wont) and NO sugar. I do eat organically grow fruits and some veggies. Snacks are nuts and dried berries a small amount of DARK no sugar chocolate but just a small amount. Grass fed free range organic only.
I'm off all meds with exception of a baby aspirin every day.... had a SMA dissection (torn aorta) a few years ago, was in ICU for a week on the table 3 near death experiences ... needless to say I was addicted to pain meds and on all sorts of crap to supposedly keep me alive. Kicked all that crap to the curb one at a time .... now healthy happy and no longer taking any pain meds .. I guess I would be considered still an addict??? Dilaudid injections every hour for several days will do it. Then follow that therapy up with Oxycontin and other crap... wow. Just writing that is scary..
I guess my point was that we are made up of mostly bacteria and its very important to feed the healthy bacteria to keep us healthy, and thats the same thing with plants.... feed the bacteria, the bacteria feed the plant ... symbiotic relationship. Humans are the same deal.
/rant...
Anyway plants looking great... a lot of green.. colored pistols I like to see some colored leaves to go with. Senescence is a thing... and completely normal.
next time!
I saw the counting crows a few years ago and it was great, but now realize I may have enjoyed the show much better if I had some tincture or vape in my pocket. 
